Capture vs ActionNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Capture
This AI-powered assistant transforms screenshots and camera captures into actionable items. It automatically organizes receipts, saves business cards, adds events to your calendar, and drafts replies for various messaging and social media platforms.
- AI-powered screenshot analysis
- Automated data organization (receipts, contacts)
- Calendar event creation
- Drafts replies for messages and social media
- Real-time shared capture spaces
- Integration with Notion, Slack, Asana, Jira, Trello, Linear
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Space cards have a simpler look, and all actions now live in the ⋯ menu. Capture is an AI-powered screenshot assistant that turns anything you capture into the right action automatically. Take a screenshot, use your camera, or share from any app. Capture understands what you've captured and instantly routes it into the right workflow. Try Capture free with 3 captures and experience it in seconds. WHAT CAPTURE DOES — Receipts → organize merchant, total, and purchase date — Business cards → save directly to Contacts — Flight confirmations → add to Google Calendar — Messages → generate AI-powered replies ready for iMessage — Emails → create Gmail drafts automatically — Social media → generate replies for X (Twitter), Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, Reddit, and LinkedIn — Products → search instantly on Amazon — Restaurants → reserve a table on OpenTable — Movies & Shows → instantly find where to watch — Photos → generate AI captions, hashtags, tags, and draft replies (Pro) AI THAT LEARNS YOU — Polish any reply with one tap — Learn your writing style from previous replies — Choose the length, tone, and personality of every response SHARED SPACES Create Spaces with family, friends, or teammates. Share an invite code and keep everything in sync in real time. — Share captures instantly — Comment, react, and send voice messages — Post directly to your Space — Organize captures with Collections — Assign captures to teammates CAPTURE UNLIMITED ($9.99 one-time) — Unlimited captures forever — Access to every destination — Early adopter pricing (price increases in future versions) CAPTURE PRO ($6.99/month) — Everything in Unlimited — Notion integration for your workspace — Secure screenshot storage with original images — Photo destination with AI captions and tags — Early access to upcoming integrations CAPTURE TEAM ($8.99/user/month) — Everything in Pro — Shared team workspace — Slack, Asana, Jira, Trello, and Linear integrations — Work tab with AI-generated reply drafts — Invite teammates by email — Team notifications for assignments and comments Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ActionNote
Capture ideas and commitments through voice, text, or photos, and transform them into actionable tasks with reminders. Track promises made by you and others, and get meeting summaries with named speakers and decisions. Access your notes and calendar in one place for a clear overview of your day.
- AI-generated summaries and actions from notes
- Bilingual (Arabic/English) note-taking
- Voice, text, and photo input
- Meeting recording and transcription with speaker identification
- Integrated calendar and task view
- Actionable reminders and promise tracking
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Never forget what you promised. Talk, type or snap a page, and ActionNote turns it into actions with reminders, in Arabic, English or both in one sentence. Meet Noto, the little paper friend who keeps your word with you. WHAT YOU SAY BECOMES WHAT YOU DO • Every note gets a title, a summary, key points and real actions with dates and reminders • "You promised" and "Others promised" keep track of promises both ways, with names • Your own words are kept under the summary, word for word • Speak Arabic and English in the same sentence; the note keeps both CAPTURE IT ANY WAY • Talk, type, photograph a page or import audio • Share voice notes, text or pictures in from WhatsApp and any app • Record from the Your day and Quick Record widgets, Control Center, Siri or your Apple Watch • The ActionNote keyboard puts a microphone in every app you type in MEETINGS WITH WHO SAID WHAT Record a meeting and get minutes with the speakers named, decisions, open questions and actions for each person. Recording on this iPhone is free; cloud minutes with speakers are part of Pro+. A notification tells you when your minutes are ready, even with the app closed. ASK YOUR NOTES "What did I promise Omar?" Get the answer with the notes it came from. YOUR DAY, AT A GLANCE Today shows what is due, what you promised and your calendar on one screen. The Daily Noto is your morning paper. Recordings and meetings show on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island. EVERY PROMISE KEPT Every action you finish becomes a paper star in Noto's jar, and a kept promise earns a gold one. Noto earns things for his room from what you really do. Nothing is for sale and nothing is taken away. No streaks, no guilt. YOURS Notes live on your iPhone and your own iCloud. Audio is sent to be transcribed and is not kept. Works on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, in Arabic, English, Spanish and French. PLANS Start free, no account needed for your first note. Pro and Pro+ are auto renewing subscriptions; Pro Lifetime is a one time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID and renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://getactionnote.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://getactionnote.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ActionNote at 17.0 against Capture's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Capture sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and ActionNote sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Capture against 5.0 for ActionNote. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Capture ships an update every 5 days, ActionNote every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Capture | ActionNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elena Rodina | Khaled Shemy |
Customer experience
Capture
ActionNote
In-app purchases
Capture
- Capture Pro$6.991 Month
- Capture Team$8.991 Month
- Capture Unlimited$9.99
ActionNote
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- ActionNote Pro+ Monthly$12.991 Month
- Premium Annually$29.991 Year
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- ActionNote Pro+ Yearly$79.991 Year
- ActionNote Pro Lifetime$69.99









